Word: forcefullness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Dexter and Levine have performed erratically. Dexter's record with modern opera is extraordinary--his Dialogues of the Carmelites and Billy Budd exemplify how best to present modern operas with narrow appeal. But his productions of standards from the nineteenth century repertory, like his curious Rigoletto, have infuriated audiences...
Coming Home has at least the charm of its political clarity; it is a straightforwardly and movingly antiwar movie that is saved from being a mere tract by its rich performances and its compassion for the Americans who fought and suffered in the war. The Deer Hunter is far more...
"We felt we had to be forceful," Chamberlain said, adding, "the idea was not to be violent, but to be vocal." "We weren't being violent in any way, but neither were we being meek little lambs," he added.
Though White House officials had for weeks been promising a forceful message on energy by the President, the timetable kept slipping as he struggled to get the Egyptian-Israeli peace pact nailed down. Yet when the speech finally came, it more than lived up to the advance billing. In blunt...
ALTHOUGH the set and staging focus on the sweeping, impersonal forces that deprive the characters of happiness, Sellars does not neglect the dense psychology of the play. In a flash of inspiration, Sellars enlisted Roy Kogan '80, to play Chopin preludes and nocturnes throughout Three Sisters. Kogan's forceful and...